Ban hazardous waste import: SC to govt
ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) welcomes Supreme Court’s judgment delivered on July 6, 2012 directing the central government to ban import of...
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You call the rain. It will come
They are all straight out of the classics of Munshi Premchand and Phanishwar Nath Renu: the incredible characters of the...
Radiation leak cover-up begins
After the radiation accident at the Rawatbhata Atomic Power Plant (RAPP) was brought into light by DiaNuke.org, the NPCIL’s media...
Hem Pandey memorial lecture on July 2
The second Hem Chandra Pandey Memorial Lecture will be delivered at 4.30 pm, July 2, 2012, at Jawahar Lal Nehru...
Activist shot at for opposing JSPL project
A leading environmental activist Ramesh Agarwal was shot at and injured on Saturday by two gunmen, allegedly at the behest...
Finally, some relief for Pinki Pramanik
In a big relief to athlete Pinki Pramanik, Calcutta high court on Friday ordered probe into the alleged violations of...
Gujarat riots: Another setback for Modi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the Narendra Modi government’s plea for staying the Gujarat High Court’s February...
Seema Azad case: Critique of verdict
PUCL and PUDR have jointly compiled a detailed report on the sentencing of Seema Azad and her husband Vishwa Vijay...
A maternal death every 10 minutes in India
India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as one maternal death is being...
Innocent villagers killed in Chhattisgarh
People of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh say that the 20 people, including women and children, killed in the biggest encounter involving CRPF...
Reliving the horror of \’Emergency\’
The convention, “Withdraw the Undeclared Emergency: In Solidarity with Seema Azad and Vishwa Vijay” was held at the Gandhi Peace...
A Fraud A Day… Keeps God Away
It was the drawing room of a middle class family in arid Rae Bareli in eastern UP in the early...
BBC reporters told to make money
A leaked email has revealed that BBC has asked its journalists to come up with the money generating ideas for...
Arun Ferreira\’s account of prison life
(After spending about five years in jail, Mumbai-based activist Arun Ferreira was released on bail in January this year. In...
Bhupathi has put self before country
The turn of events over the past week has been distasteful and certainly not the best prelude for a good...
जेल में सितारों के बिना एक दुनिया
याद करें बचपन की. वे कौन सी यादें हैं जो हमें अभी भी रोमांचित करती हैं- गर्मी की उमस भरी...
Egregious Injustice is a disease
(No one individual critic has taken on the Indian State like Arundhati Roy has. In a fight that began with...
No respite for helpless Soni Sori
Soni Sori continues to be ill-treated at the hands of Chhattisgarh government, after a brief breather during her treatment at...
Are we guilty of Tarun Sehrawat\’s death?
When I first heard about two journalists battling for life after returning from a reporting assignment in the Abujmarh jungles...
Activists demand equal distribution of water
The Right to Water Campaign organised a press conference in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the drinking water crisis in...
Anti-asbestos struggle in Bihar gain momentum
Medha Patkar of National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements (NAPM) and Dr Barry Castleman, a world renowned public health expert from...
When will Nitish govt wake up to encephalitis?
Over 200 children have died in Bihar due to encephalitis since the outbreak of the disease in May this year....
Tarun had a long way to go
22-year old Tarun Sehrawat, a photo journalist with Tehelka, passed away on Friday battling some deadly diseases which he contracted...
Seema Azad’s case- Crushing voices of dissent
"The conviction of civil rights activist Seema Azad for terrorism, unlawful activities, sedition and waging war against the state is...
जो बाहर नहीं हो रहा, सीखचों के पीछे बुलंद है
शुक्रवार यानी 15 जून को बिहार और झारखण्ड की तमाम जेलों में हज़ारों बंदियों ने दिन भर खाना नहीं खाया....
